Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

- Josh Billings

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Shaw, George Bernard

My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. [Job 14:17]

Bible

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Twain, Mark

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Richter, Jean Paul

Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.

Real Live Preacher

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

Heine, Heinrich

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

10.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. [Ephesians 1:7]

Bible

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Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you.

Proverb

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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Augustine, St.

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It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.

Real Live Preacher

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

19.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

21.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

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A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Forgotten is forgiven.

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Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.

Chesterfield, Lord

26.

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

Sophocles

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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

29.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

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It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

31.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

Dolores Huerta

32.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -- torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

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And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. [Ephesians 4:32]

Bible

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Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Lawana Blackwell

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Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

Camus, Albert

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Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much.

Wilde, Oscar

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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

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You should pardon many things in others, nothing in yourself.

Auson

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He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

Lauter

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In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.

Arendt, Hannah

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When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Dietrich, Marlene

45.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it

Twain, Mark

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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive